Environment

This has become accepted theory amongst many people and yet it remains politically charged and controversial to some, not to mention that some people flatly deny its existence. Well I was an Environmental Science and Policy major at school and I do believe climate change is real and that this time around humans are at least part of the cause of it.  Read More »

so n. korea dismantled their nuclear powerplant last year, the "free" world heralded it as a great step forward. question is, at what cost and is it even really forward? we just saw a moving speech here in america by our president where he called for a vast expansion of renewable energies so that we can move away from the fossil-based fuels that contribute the co2 we all know and love.  Read More »

Mankind is taking our planet on a crash course for disaster. In the past decade, I have noticed a significant change in the environment around Butte. The signs of global warming are all around us. It wasn’t that long ago and we would have snow by November. The past few winters have come much later than stay much longer. We as a society have generated this dilemma.  Read More »

I drove behind an SUV with this bumper sticker: “No Farms No Food.” It’s a simple message, and quite obvious, really, but on this day, it caught me. It wasn’t the irony of an SUV-driving eco-lover that caught my attention; I don’t know what it was.  Read More »

During economic crises of such magnitude, it is imperative that we understand our current system of banking and finance. Such basic understanding is necessary in order to assess the impact that different fiscal, monetary, and economic policies have on civil rights, the environment, national security, and any other "issue".  Read More »

It was 10:37AM on a typical Thursday and I was sitting in Desktop Publishing, stapling together the school newspaper. It wasn’t long before someone realized there was a huge misprint on the front page. Mrs.  Read More »

This is the piece I wrote for the College newspaper wrapping up my series of articles about John McCain and the 2008 Presidential Election.  Read More »